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A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents (page 5) Acknowledgments (page 7) Introduction (Helen R. Jacobus) (page 9) Asakku: Demons and Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia (Andras Bacskay) (page 19) Notes on the Presence of Magic within the Hebrew Bible in Light of Akkadian Literature (Ronnie Goldstein) (page 27) Apotropaic Intercession in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Marian Broida) (page 37) Magical Healing at Qumran (11Q11) and the Question of the Calendar (Ida Frohlich) (page 57) Calendars in the Book of Esther: Purim, Festivals, Cosmology (Helen R. Jacobus) (page 69) Drawing a Line between Prophecy, Magic and Divination (Heiko Wenzel) (page 95) Dreams in the Hebrew Bible and Wisdom Literature (Eleni Soumani) (page 107) Aaron and the Amazing Mantic Coat (Philippe Guillaume) (page 119) From Mantle to Scroll: the Wane of the Flesh and Blood Prophet in the Elisha Cycle (Hadi Ghantous) (page 137) Drinking Golden Bull: the Erased Ordeal in Exodus 32 (Philippe Guillaume) (page 153) A Kind of Magic? The Law of Jealousy in Numbers 5:11-31 as Magical Ritual and as Ritual Text (Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme) (page 167) Peter and Simon in the Acts of Peter: between Magic and Miracles (Kasper Dalgaard) (page 187) Paul and Magic: Complementary or Incongruent Entities? (Anders Klostergaard Petersen) (page 199) How Biblical Verses Became an Enchantment Against the Evil Eye (Chaim Nathan Marx) (page 229) The Use of Biblical Quotations in Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls (Christa Muller-Kessler) (page 245) Bibliography (page 265) Index (page 321) Index of Ancient Sources (page 323)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781463228026
  • Publisher: Gorgias Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Gorgias Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 330
  • ISBN-10: 1463228023
  • Publisher Date: 23 May 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 11 Biblical Intersections


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